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Happy Workplaces Can Also Be Candid Workplaces

Harvard Business Review

Psychological safety improves learning and performance outcomes, and, as research by Amy Edmondson of Harvard demonstrates , is created when leaders are inclusive, humble, and encourage their staff to speak up or ask for help. You can correct your employees, even criticize or confront them, but you want to do so in a positive context.

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5 Ways Leadership Can’t Be “Normal” Anymore

Ron Edmondson

To lead today we must learn to think outside some things once considered normal in leadership. When I was first in leadership as a retail manager, I could set the schedule for people, tell them what to do and hold them accountable for routine tasks. To do this means they must have ownership in the creation of vision.

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5 Ways Leaders Can’t Be “Normal” Today

Ron Edmondson

To lead today we must learn to think outside some things once considered normal in leadership. When I was first in leadership as a retail manager, I could set the schedule for people, tell them what to do, hold them accountable for routine tasks with high expectations, and then evaluate them by whether or not they did the job.